Review – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
I’ve been looking forward to this film ever since I heard that they were making another Indiana Jones movie. I was even more exited when I saw a photo from production that showed George Lucas wearing a “Han Shot First” t-shirt. I thought, “Hey, maybe ol’ Georgie finally realized that he’s been royally screwing up his movies lately.”
Sadly, I was wrong.
My first clue that something was wrong was the appearance of Neil Flynn as a federal agent (“Janitor” from scrubs, for those who don’t know). Don’t get me wrong, I love Neil. He just seemed out of place.
In another scene Indy and his friends are in pursuit of the Russians driving through the jungle. During which Cate Blanchett and Shia LeBouf get into a sword fight while standing on opposing moving vehicles. Granted, it’s a movie and they movies are allowed to stretch the laws of physics, but there’s no way in hell anyone could do that. A little later in the scene, Shia’s character gets caught up on some vines and pulled out of the car. Guess what happens next. Right, he goes Tarzan on those vines and somehow catches up with the speeding cars. This is when I started thinking this movie was supposed to be a comedy.
I can’t forget to talk about the ending. Do you remember watching the movie A.I.? Remember the end, where Haley Joel Osment is talking to the alien looking robot things, and you’re thinking “What in the holy hell is going on”? This movie had an ending like that. This movie took the Indiana Jones from the Adventure genre right into Sci Fi.
My final thoughts. George Lucas, if you’re reading this, for the love of all that is good and Holy, please stop making movies.
Overall score: 2/5 stars.
